Ash Wednesday

With Ash Wednesday, February 14, we enter Lent, the season of love and care, of charity and conversion, of fasting, almsgiving, and prayer. Please come and celebrate this Ash Wednesday.

8:00 a.m. English Mass with NCA Students & Distribution of Ashes
12:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Word with Distribution of Ashes
5:00 p.m. Mass (English) with Distribution of Ashes
7:00 p.m. Mass (Vietnamese) with Distribution of Ashes

· Everyone 14 years of age or older is bound to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, all the Fridays of Lent, and Good Friday.

· Everyone 18 or older, and under 59 years of age, is bound to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

· On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, only one full meatless meal is allowed. Two other meatless meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to each one’s needs, but together they should not equal another full meal. Eating between meals is not permitted. When health or ability to work would be seriously affected, the law does not oblige.

· Catholics should not lightly excuse themselves from these prescribed minimal penitential practices.